mobanmarketDubai: Australian carrier Qantas keeps grabbing headlines for record-breaking flights. For the record, however, it’s the Gulf carriers that dominate commercial ultra long-haul flights, perhaps making the concept of stop-overs becoming increasingly obsolete.
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On Friday, November 15, 2019, Qantas completed a “double sunrise” non-stop flight from London to Sydney. The London-Sydney research flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, carried 52 passengers.
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It was a 19-hour-19-minute non-stop “test flight” from London to Sydney. The airline is nearing a decision on whether to order planes for what would be the world’s longest-ever commercial route.
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Last month, on October 21, a Qantas Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with 49 people on board also completed the 10,066-mile journey (16,200 km) from New York to Sydney in 19 hours and 16 minutes.
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Ultra-long haul travel to and from the UAE
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Travelers have a number of ultra-longhaul non-stop flights options — to and from the UAE — that are pretty close to these world records, too. Some of these routes are quite long, they will test your patience travelling in economy class to those destinations.
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We’ve compiled a list of the farthest destinations that travellers can reach with a non-stop flight from Dubai and Abu Dhabi. While some of these flights are seasonal; others are year-round flights. This list may change in the near future as airlines keep adding and dropping routes.
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Abu Dhabi – Los Angeles
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Dubai – San Francisco
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Dubai to Los Angeles
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Dubai – Houston
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Dubai – Dallas/Fort Worth
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Auckland – Dubai
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Dubai – Auckland
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Abu Dhabi – Chicago
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